Card-exhibitor



M. MATHER.

CARD EXHIBITOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I0. 1920.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

, I i I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIQN ATHER, or onnnn vnw YORK.

CARD-EXHIBITOR.

Application filed June 16,

To all w 7mm it may concern Be it known that I, MARION li fATHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olean, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card-Exhibitors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for exhibiting a series of cards or other similar objects one after another; and it consists in the novel constructionand combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a card exhibitor constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view, taken. on the line 22 in F ig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a card hook and adjacent parts, drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through a card holder.

A suitable inclosing case l is provided, and it has an opening er window .5 at its front side where the cards are exhibited. A shaft 6 passes crosswise through the casing behind the window, and is provided with a pulley or wheel 7 for revolving it intermittently by any approved means.

Triangular frames 8 are secured on this shaft, and have laterally projecting flanges 9. Each flange 9 has a slot or opening 10 in its forward end portion,'the said frames being revolved by the shaft in the direction of the curvec. arrow in Fig. 1. A hook 12 is pivoted to the frame in each of its slots 10 by a pin 14. w

Curved supporting bars 15 are secured to the ends 16 of the casing 4L, and project laterally under the frames 8. These bars 15 are arranged substantially concentric with the shaft 6. The cards 18 to be exhibited have holders 19 of any approved sort attached to their ends, and these holders have laterally projecting lugs 20. Two of these lugs 20 project at the upper corners of the cards, and rest on the supporting bars 15 when the cards are in their normal positions.

As many cards as the bars 15 will hold can be placed in the machine, and exhibited one after'another. Each side of each card is provided with matter to be exhibited, and the fronts and the backs ofthe cards are exhibited alternately. Curved guide bars 24; project from the ends of the casing, and are arranged over the rear and middle portions Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920. 1920. Serial "no. 387,927.

of the curved supporting bars 15. The rear ends of the guide bars 24- project above the ends of the supporting bars 15 so that an elongated entrance opening 25 is formed between them.

Reversing levers 26 are provided, and are pivoted to the ends of the casing by pins 27.

he lower end portions of these levers normally hang by gravity in a slightly inclined position, and their upper end portions 28 are arranged at an angle to their lower end portions so that they overlap and close the entrance openings 25.

The pivoted hooks 12 slide down the upper sides of the curved guide bars as, and engage with the upper lugs of each card as it passes from under the guide bars 2d. Springs 30 are provided at this point and are secured to the supporting bars 15, to lift up the cards a little so that the hooks may enga e with their upper lugs and lift the cards one by one off the supporting bars 15. The frames 8 are provided with catches 31 for engaging with the lower lugs when the cards are lifted off the bars 15, and are displayed at the window.

The machine is operated intermittently so that the cards are held stationary at the window for a predetermined space of time.

d' hen the cards are carried around to the back part of the casing by the triangular frames, the lugs 20 which were uppermost when the cards were being displayed slide over the upper end portions of the reversing levers, and bear against their lower end portions, so that the reversing levers are tilted a little on their pivots to permit the other lugs on the cards to pass through the entrance opening 25 between the two curved bars. The upper lugs of the cards now become their lower lugs, so that the cards are reversed,- and the second time they are exhibited at the window their backs are shown instead of their fronts. The catches 31 assist in guiding the lugs into the entrance opening 25; and the hooks are disengaged from the lugs by contact with the top edges of the guide bars 24.

\Vhen the lugs on the cards have passed through the entrance opening 25, the cards descend by gravity clear of the lower end portions of the reversing levers, and are picked up one by one as hereinbefore described at the front part of the machine.

What I claim is:

provided with pivoted hooks for engaging with the cards, curved supporting bars and guide bars for the cards cards provided with lugs which pass between the said bars, and pivoted reversing levers normally closing the entrance opening between the said bars and operated by the said lugs and en' i abling the fronts and backs of the cards to I be displayed alternately.

2'. In a card exhibitor, revolnble triangular frames provided with laterally project ingfianges which have slots in their for ward end portions, hooks pivoted in the said slots and adapted to engage with the cards, curved supporting bars and guide bars for the cares, cards provided with lugswlnch pass between the said bars, and pivoted reversing levers normally closing the entrance opening between the said bars and operated by the said lugs and enabling the fronts and backs of the cards to be disprovided with pivoted hooks for engaging 25 with the cards, curved supporting bars and played alternately. v V

l 3. In acard exhibitor, revojluble frames guide bars arranged substantially concentriewith the frames, the front end portions of the supporting bars being arranged to project forwardly beyond the front ends of the guide bars,'and the rear ends of the guide bars being arranged to project above the rear ends of' the supporting barsand and form entrance openings, cards provided with lugs which pass between the said bars, and pivoted reversing levers normally closing the said openings and operated by the lugs on the cards and enabling the fronts and backs of the cards to be displayed alternately, v I

epln a card exhibitor,jrevoluble frames provided with pivoted-hooks and catches for engaging with the Cards, curved sup-c porting bars and guide bars for the cards;

oardsprovided.with lugs which pass between the said bars, ,springs for raising the T i; 'J. .L In cards as theypass ironi under the iront endsof the gtndebarstne said hooks being niovedpivotally bythe said guidebars into and outgo f engagement with the lugs on the 'cards, ;and pivoted .reverslng levers operated by the said lugs andrnorinally closing the entrance opening between the [said bars, and enabling the fronts and backs of the cards to be displayed alternately.

, In testimony whereof signature. V

{MARION MATHER.

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